The Littlest Duck

During the water portion of the trip the captain asked if anyone wanted to drive the boat. At his first request both Casey and Jacob were too shy to try. But then a little girl about 8 years old took the helm. The captain of the boat asked the 8 year old to do the ducky boat call, which we had been performing throughout the tour. She did as she was asked, pronouncing: "Quack Quack Quack" into the captain's microphone for all to hear. Something about her presence at the front of the boat seemed to embolden Casey. So when the 8 year old gave up the helm, Casey asked to try her hand at steering.


When Casey was driving the boat the captain put the microphone out towards her and said, "What's your name, little lady?" Casey replied, "Quack Quack Quack." I think it might have been an honest mistake on Casey's part---she was remembering what the other girl had been asked to do. But the comic timing of it was pure genius. The entire tour burst into genuine, uproarious laughter. We had been fed so many corny lines, and so many bad jokes, that Casey's innocent quack-in-place-of-name was one of the more genuinely funny things we had heard yet on the tour.